Did we successfully solve the problem of space travel or have we just caused new ones? Herman Potočnik Noordung was born on December 22, 1892, in the city of Pola, which was in those days a part of Austria-Hungary (nowadays Pula, Republic of Croatia). In 1929 his book The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket …
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Arte Povera
The Politics of Labor in Postwar Italian Art Magazzino Italian Art FoundationMarch 19 – April 30, 2022 Arte povera means literally ‘poor art’ but the word poor here refers to the movement’s signature exploration of a wide range of materials beyond the traditional ones of oil paint on canvas, bronze, or carved marble. Materials used …
March 8th — International Women’s Day 🌹
From Alexandra Kollontai to Martha Rosler
War – Bob Marley
Until the philosophy which hold one race superiorAnd anotherInferiorIs finallyAnd permanentlyDiscreditedAnd abandoned –Everywhere is war –Me say war.That until there no longerFirst class and second class citizens of any nationUntil the colour of a man’s skinIs of no more significance than the colour of his eyes –Me say war.That until the basic human rightsAre equally …
We Ourselves – The Politics of Us
The first person plural ‘We’ is an ectoplasmic form found in the majority of human languages. It is capable of embracing everything that lies between myself and the rest of the world.Through ‘we’, many subjects situate themselves, limit themselves, negotiate their similarities and differences, and engage in politics.Tristan Garcia
Jean-Luc Nancy in Belgrade: Thinking with Nancy
Andromeda: Science Fiction Almanac
An old Yugoslav collection of science fiction works – in Serbo-Croatian – published by Galaksija (Galaxy) magazine as the Andromeda almanac in 1977. It included A report from the Cosmos by Ljubiša Jocić and an excerpt from 2018 A.D. or the King Kong Blues by Sam Lundwall which are below (in English). It’s worth preserving …
Aesthetic Dissent with Wandering Spirits and Wild Ghosts
The process of inventing a new visual language is also a revolution, a revolution of sensibility, in a sense as important as the armed seizure of power and thus the change of the world. Walter Benjamin, a German theorist from the world of the living, said that the Nazis had aestheticized politics, and in order …
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The Russian Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
The Philosophy of Parochialism
By Radomir Konstantinovic; originally published as Filosofija Palanke Edited and with an Introduction by Branislav Jakovljevic, Translation by Ljiljana Nikolic and Branislav Jakovljevic and available for the first time in English in 2021 The Philosophy of Parochialism is Radomir Konstantinović’s (1928–2011) most celebrated and reviled book, first published in Belgrade as Filosofija palanke in 1969. …